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Warwick-Newberry Workshop: Social and Cultural Practice and the Built Environment in Early Modern England

Friday, November 18, 2005

Center for Renaissance Studies Programs

Warwick-Newberry Collaborative Programs

Held at the University of Warwick, Coventry, England. The theme for this year’s series of workshops is “Space, Culture, and Power: Peopling the Built Environment in Renaissance England, c. 1450-1750.”

This one-day interdisciplinary workshop examined the relationships between specific forms of social and cultural practice and particular types of built environment in early modern England. Short papers and a roundtable forum explored:

The characteristics and particularities of the built environment in Renaissance England

The development and transmission of particular architectural styles and fashions

The relationships between buildings, institutions, political power and cultural practice

The literary and artistic representation of the built environment

The potential and limits of spatial theory for the exploration of buildings and their use